Review – The Secret Agent

I can’t quite decide if this is a great movie with a lot of boring parts or a boring movie with some great parts. So I’ll give it a three-star compromise. Bob Hoskins plays the lead in this adaptation of a story by Joseph Conrad about an agent provocateur working for the Russians in London in the 1880s. After a bomb plot goes awry, the picture turns into a pathos-heavy tale of the ruin of the protagonist’s personal life. Before, after and during this, however, we get some prime dialogue delivered by Eddie Izzard and (of all people) Robin Williams. However hard the sentimental nonsense is to take, it’s worth it for the good parts. Worth seeing